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In Liberia, a Peace Activist Becomes a Mayor

By Ishaan Tharoor | @ishaantharoor | February 24, 2011 | +

This terrific video comes via TIME’s Multimedia Director Craig Duff, who offers the following introduction:

If peacemakers are indeed blessed, as a famous sermon once said, then Etweda Cooper can think big. As a founder of the Liberian Women’s Initiative, Cooper – who is better known as ‘Sugars’ Cooper – led demonstrations and other actions to bring an end to Liberia’s 14-year civil war. Now she is working to rebuild her country as the newly elected mayor of her home town. Video journalist Ed Robbins met Cooper in the war-torn hamlet of Edina, where the small-town mayor has big visions for the future.

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  • http://tweefur.wordpress.com tweefur

    Thank you for doing a piece on Liberia that shows the hopes of the women and leaders of Liberia, and lets the world know that Liberians are doing all they can to maintain peace and rebuild our beautiful country.

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